This military cadet, hero of the Large War, is formed at the hard North-African school. General in 1941, it takes, after the Torch operation and the countryside of Tunisia, the command of the division of Constantine who unloads in Italy at the beginning of 1944. Its troops are distinguished in the view-point and Abate, then, spring, at the time of the offensive of Garigliano... After the unloading of Provence (August 1944), it takes part in the catch of Toulon; the General De Lattre de Tassigny cannot then contain the "incontestable liberator of Marseilles "... With the head of the 7° army corps (first army), it joined Stuttgart and the command of the French troops of occupations.